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Frederick Douglass Quote - We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Array Character Community Cover Destiny Glory Majestic Shame Share
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave

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